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Ap European History - 495 words
AP European History Expansion Essay December 5,
2000 Fifteenth Century Expansion and Exploration
The move by European nations and empires beginning
in the fifteenth centuries had many precursors
leading up to it. The expansion was mostly the
result of a quest for wealth however. New
technology and new knowledge of the earth and ways
to navigate it were a great assistant to mariners,
and thus gave the success for riches a higher
probability for success. Those reasons were only
further enabled by the goal of spreading
Christianity. Wealth has arguably been the motive
behind most of man's efforts throughout time.
European exploration is certainly no exception.
The riches of Asian and Indian goo ...
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European History - 1,090 words
European History Charles et Secondat, Baron de la
Brede et de Montesquieu Charles de Secondat, Baron
de la Brede et de Montesquieu was born in 1689 to
a French noble family. "His family tree could be
traced 350 years, which in his view made its name
neither good nor bad." (The Encyclopedia of Social
Sciences, p. 68) Montesquieu's views started to be
shaped at a very early age. A beggar was chosen to
be his godfather to remind him of his obligations
to the poor. Montesquieu's education started at
the age of 11 when he was sent to Juilly, a school
maintained by the Congregation of the Oratory.
From 1705 to 1709 he studied law in Bordeaux.
"From 1705 to 1709 he was a legal apprentice in
Paris. ...
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Subject European History - 1,818 words
subject = European History title = Caesar and
Naopoleon papers = Napoleon Bonaparte's success as
a military leader and conqueror can also be seen
in another great leader, Julius Caesar. Both
Napoleon and Caesar achieved great glory by
bringing their countries out of turmoil. It was
Caesar, that Napoleon modeled himself after, he
wanted to be as great, if not greater than Caesar.
Looking to the past, Napoleon knew what steps to
take in order to achieve success Napoleon devoured
books on the art of war. Volume after volume of
military theory was read, analyzed and criticized.
He studied the campaigns of history's most famous
commanders; Alexander the Great, Hannibal,
Frederick the Great and hi ...
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A Postmodern Age - 1,423 words
A Post-Modern Age? A Post-Modern Age?
Introduction: Post-Modernism can be described as a
particular style of thought. It is a concept that
correlates the emergence of new features and types
of social life and economic order in a culture;
often called modernization, post-industrial,
consumer, media, or multinational capitalistic
societies. In Modernity, we have the sense or idea
that the present is discontinuous with the past,
that through a process of social, technological,
and cultural change (either through improvement,
that is, progress, or through decline) life in the
present is fundamentally different from life in
the past. This sense or idea as a world view
contrasts with what is commo ...
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A Time In History - 938 words
A Time In History A Time in History Ive been asked
before: What time period in history would you most
like to visit and experience the most? And I would
have to stop and wonder where exactly I would want
to go. I use to have much trouble in answering
this question. There are countless events and
points of time in history that I would absolutely
love to get to see with my own eyes and experience
with my own body and mind. However, I now find it
rather easier to respond without having to stop
and think for so long. Somewhere along thereabouts
of the 13th century would definitely be one of my
choices now. There are many things I would like to
see for myself. For one, the works of art produced
d ...
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Aeneas As A Roman Hero - 968 words
Aeneas As A Roman Hero Aeneas as a Roman Hero In
Virgil's poem, The Aeneid, the ideal Roman hero is
depicted in the form of Aeneas. Not only does
Aeneas represent the Roman hero, but he also
represents what every Roman citizen is called to
be. Each Roman citizen must posses two major
virtues, he must remain pious, and he must remain
loyal to the Roman race. In the poem, Aeneas
encompasses both of these virtues, and must deal
with both the rewards and costs of them. In the
poem, Virgil says that all Romans ought to have
two certain virtues: he must remain a pious Roman
citizen, and he must remain loyal to the Roman
race. In Virgil's poem, he uses Aeneas as a
portrayal of not only a roman hero ...
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Alexander The Great - 618 words
Alexander The Great Who is Great? In history there
are few people who can be termed Great and even
fewer who deserve to be called so. Alexander, the
son of King Phillip of the Macedonians, was one of
these truly Great people. He not merely ruled the
largest know empire, was declared a God, lead his
troops in battle, and conquered foreign cities,
his first being at the age of sixteen, but he did
it all within a thirteen year time period. Not
only did he do all of this, but also it was done
within thirteen years. When Alexander became the
new King of Macedonia, many believed him to be to
young to rule. They felt that he didnt have the
experience needed to be their new leader. They had
no way o ...
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Aushwitz Diary - 1,252 words
... me around twelve or one o'clock. We got soup
or just plain water in a metal tin like a mess
kit. It wasn't even hot. We each had a spoon, and
we were fishing all the time in the soup to see if
there was anything in it to eat, unfortunately we
rarely found anything in there. In the evening we
got a slice of bread about a quarter of an inch
thick. November 23 1933 There was always this
sickly sweet smell in the air. We saw a large
chimney belching smoke 24 hours a day. We saw
German military trucks and buses going back and
forth. December 5.1933 We made the best we could
of the situation. My brother Phil had hidden a
book by the German poet Goethe. We read it twice.
We memorized it. We quo ...
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Beethovens Symphony No 9 - 659 words
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 Beethoven's Symphony
No. 9 Choral' The 9th Symphony is an amazing piece
of music. From the slow opening, to its quick
ascent to a powerful clash of instruments, the
entire piece is captivating. The incredible part
about the entire piece is that from the beginning
to the end there is a contrast between soft and
loud, always dueling for time. Either there is a
strong controlling element running through the
music or there is a soft easy melody. The dualism
between the deeper instruments playing in contrast
to the softer woodwinds makes for an interesting
listen. Each time that I have listened to this
piece I am always hearing different pieces that I
had not heard the ...
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Before The Holocaust - 407 words
Before The Holocaust The Jews had faced
discrimination long before the Holocaust began.
Anti-Semitism (discrimination against Jews) has
existed since ancient times. In many cities, the
Jews were forced to live in separate communities
called ghettos. They had to pay special taxes, and
they were not permitted to own land or to enter
certain occupations. Adolf Hitler, the leader of
the Nazi Party, became head of the German
government in 1933. He rapidly moved to make
himself a dictator. Germany's defeat in World War
I (1914-1918) and a worldwide depression in the
early 1930's had left the country's economy in
ruins. Hitler held responsible the Jews for
Germany's troubles, and he made anti-Semit ...
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Benito Mussolini - 815 words
Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini Like his father,
Benito became a burning socialist. Mussolini had
huge goals of running a political machine based on
his own beliefs. Born in the poverty-stricken
village of Romagna, Italy, he was wild, nomadic,
and defiant as a young adult lived the life of a
bum. Showing fierce aggression at such a young
age, he was expelled from two schools for
knife-assaults on other students. His father a
village blacksmith and his mother a
schoolmistress, he lived life in poverty that
seemed inscapable. By moving from Italy to Austria
he devoted himself to the battle for human and
economic freedom. Mussolini had become an
impassioned Socialist. He had been appointed se ...
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Black Death - 685 words
Black Death In the 1340s, approximately one third
to one half the population of Europe was wiped out
by what was called The Black Death. The people of
the time were armed with little to no
understanding of why and how the plague happened
and how to control it; and this allowed for the
vast destruction that occurred in little more than
three years time. The origin of the epidemic has,
with little doubt, been identified as Lake
Issyk-Koul in what is now a part of Russian
Central Asia. A flood, or some other natural
disaster, drove various rodents from their
habitats around the lake; and with them they
carried fleas infected with the plague. A species
of wild rodents normally isolated from huma ...
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Black Death - 501 words
Black Death The Black Death serves as a major
turning point in the history of European
civilization. The arrival of both the bubonic and
pneumonic plagues threw Europe as a whole into an
economic, social, and political tailspin. Europe
was already on its collective way down
economically due to declining areas of cultivation
and the effects of prolonged warfare when, in
1347, the Black Death set upon the Europeans. For
the next 100 years, Europeans would have to adapt
to an extremely different and difficult lifestyle.
The Plague cut through Europe like a giant scythe.
Toulouse and the rural areas surrounding Pistoia
lost close to two-thirds of their respective
populations. Citizens began to s ...
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Botticellis Spring - 991 words
Botticelli's Spring The renaissance was a time of
wonderful art, though one artist in particular
stood out, that was Sandro Botticelli. This man
created some of the most renowned pieces of art in
European history; one great painting was Allegory
of Spring. This mythological artwork was an
amazing change from the normalcy of past times.
Botticellis Allegory of Spring, painted in 1482,
is one of the most remarkable and astounding
pieces of renaissance art with the wondrous
symbols, style, story of the piece and also the
intriguing history of Botticelli himself.
Botticelli is considered one of the greatest
artists of the Renaissance; one of his finest
works was Allegory of Spring. Botticelli, o ...
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Calvanism - 212 words
Calvanism France Calvanism Before Martin Luther,
few dared to openly question the Catholic Church.
After his initial challenge people were for the
first time in 1000 years more comfortable
questioning the beliefs formerly pushed upon them.
One of the most influential of those that dared to
have such original ideas was John Calvin. Living
in France at this time, opposition to the Catholic
Church was not well received and he found it
necessary to flee to Switzerland. There he teached
with the Protestant preachers in Geneva. His ideas
were a bit too controversial there as well though
and he was asked to leave. His ideas, as expressed
in his book The Institutes of Christian Religion,
consist of ...
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Causes Of World War I With Relationship To Current Conflicts - 1,269 words
Causes Of World War I With Relationship To Current
Conflicts As the war of the worlds collide between
the more democratic Allies and the orthodox
Central powers, there were numerous causes to the
war in which they can be summed up into the - isms
of modern analysis. In the 19th, 20th, and even
the 21st century, almost all of the conflicts can
be categorized in either one or a combination of
those - isms. Nationalism and Extreme Nationalism
One of the causes of World War I can be linked to
the use of extreme nationalism. An easily abused
method, nationalism proved worthy of a war during
the Napoleonic Era. Extreme nationalism was one of
the causes of World War I because of the
unification of ...
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Changes To Greece Brought About By Wwi - 445 words
Changes To Greece Brought About By Wwi Changes to
Greece Brought About By WWI. World War One greatly
affected many countries in Europe. Some of the
post-war affects were the country's population,
economy, politics, and geography. Usually, when
wars come to end, there are winners and losers.
One party celebrates its victory while the other
tries to overcome its defeat. Sometimes the
victors see their enemies weak period as an
opportunity to take back their rightful share. In
the early nineteen hundred's Greece was playing
with the winning team (Greece- History). It saw
Turkey as weak, thus a chance to reclaim western
Turkey. Western Turkey was important to Greece
because it used to be Greek t ...
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China The Favored Nation - 1,709 words
... e United States by allowing United States to
significantly reduce China's quotas if China
violates the agreement through transshipments.
Charges by the United States Customs Service of
illegal transshipments by China have led the
United States on separate occasions since the
signing of the agreement to reduce China's textile
and apparel quotas on specific products. The most
recent incident occurred on September 6, 1996,
when the U.S.T.R. announced that the United States
would impose a $19 million dollar punitive charge
against China's 1996 textile quota allowance due
to China's repeated violations of the United
States-China textile agreement dealing with
illegal transshipments. China in ...
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